San Juan Puerto Rico Shirts
The walled city. If San Juan is your pueblo, or the one your family came from, here is what we make for it — and what we don't make yet.
There is no San Juan tee yet
We are working through the island's 78 municipios one at a time, and San Juan is not up yet. We will say that plainly rather than sell you something with a flag on it instead.
What you can do is ask for it. We design custom shirts, send a free mockup within 48 hours, and charge nothing until you approve it — your barrio, your street, Santurce, Río Piedras, whatever the version of San Juan is that actually belongs to you.
What we do make for San Juan
Garita Tee — $24
The stone sentry box built into the walls of Old San Juan. It is the most recognisable silhouette the city has, and it is already on a shirt. Printed to order, free shipping, S through 2XL.
The Puerto Rico Towns Tee carries all 78 municipio names set as a block of type — San Juan included.
About San Juan
Founded in 1521 by Juan Ponce de León, San Juan is the second-oldest European-founded capital in the Americas and the oldest under United States sovereignty. 342,259 people at the 2020 census.
It answers to La Ciudad Amurallada, the walled city, and La Llave de las Indias, the key to the Indies — which is what it was, strategically, for three centuries. El Morro and San Cristóbal are why. La Fortaleza has housed the governor since the sixteenth century. Old San Juan has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983.
But the city is not a museum. Santurce, Hato Rey, Río Piedras, Puerta de Tierra, Condado — salsa came up here, and so did reggaeton. The Fiestas de San Juan run in summer. The Calle San Sebastián festival in January pulls around two hundred thousand people into a few blocks of Old San Juan and is, by common agreement, the best party on the island.
When your pueblo is somewhere you left
More Puerto Ricans live off the island than on it. For a lot of people the pueblo is not where they live — it is where their mother is from, or where they spent every summer, or the name on a street sign they have not seen in twenty years.
That is what a town tee is for. Not a souvenir. A way of saying which part of the island is yours, to the one person in the room who will recognise it.